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Zuma Nesta Rock: Gwen Stefani's Baby Name Explained

 

Published 8/22/2008 by The Huffington Post News Team at Entertainment on HuffingtonPost.com

By naming their newborn son Zuma Nesta Rock, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale "have proven decisively that they're masters in choosing names that are both highly unusual and carry a lot of personal meaning," baby name expert Pamela Redmond Satran, co-author of The Baby Name Bible, tells Usmagazine.com. "They've continued their own place-naming tradition by naming their son after Zuma Beach in Malibu," Satran explains, citing a profile of Rossdale which said he had an epiphany that began his career. (link)

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